Chapter One

You’re in the Business of Information

An introductory chapter stressing the importance of information to any business and how good decisions are made based on data.

Keywords

business intelligence; data warehousing; information management; big data; information architecture; performance management; leadership

The most successful organizations are the ones with the most useful and actionable information.

The book is about managing bet-your-business data about customers, products, finances, suppliers, employees, vendors, etc. and all manner of transactions. The possibilities for exploiting this data have increased exponentially in the past decade. It used to be we would try to put everything in a data warehouse (discussed in the next chapter.) ...

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